The Ministry of Shipping has short-listed three locations on the East Coast - Tuticorin and Ennore in Tamil Nadu and Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh for setting up an international size shipyard.

Ennore Port will be the nodal agency for making a preliminary preparation, including inviting expression of interest for the project. EPL has invited expressions of interest from firms to set up a shipyard on the East Coast on BOT basis at a suitable location.

The scope of work involves developing the shipyard consisting of two big docks, and preferably three (two for building and one for repair), quay side length of at least 2.5 km with 12m water depth with various support facilities.

The selected firm will design, finance, engineer, construct, operate, market and maintain the shipyard of adequate capacity to build and repair merchant ships of up to VLCC/ULCC and all other ships within this range. The firm may also be required to develop a greenfield project at a suitable location on east coast exclusively for the shipyard.

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